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THE ASCENSION 



God Made the World 




A COLLECTION OF BIBLE STORIES IN WORDS 
OF EASY READING FOR LITTLE CHILDREN 



BY 



Josephine 
Pollard 



Author of BIBLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE; HISTORY OF THE NEW 
TESTAMENT; HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT'; BIBLE 
STORIES FOR CHILDREN; RUTH, A BIBLE HEROINE; THE 
GOOD SAMARITAN; THE STORY OF JESUS; THE BOYHOOD OF 
JESUS; SWEET STORIES OF GOD ; etc., etc. ««««««««« 



Illustrated 



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NEW YORK AKRON, OHIO 

1899 



CHICAGO 



38891 

Copyright, 1899, 

BY 

THE WERNER COMPANY 




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GOD MADE THE WORLD 



Far back in the past, more years than you could 
think or count, God made the world. It did not look 
at first as it does now, for there was no live thing on 
it, no men, beasts, or birds, not a bush, tree or plant, 
but all was dark and drear. 

Then God said, Let there be light! And the 
light came. And God saw the light, and it pleased 
him, and he gave it the name of Day. And when 
the day was gone, and the dark came back to stay 
for a while, he gave the dark spell the name of Night. 
And God did these things on the first day. 

The next day God made the clouds, and the 
sky in which they were to move ; and he gave the 
sky a name; he called it Heav-en. 

Then he drove the wa-ters to one place where 
they were both deep and wide, and he called the wa- 
ters Seas, and to the dry land he gave the name of 

Y. F. B. -3 J ° 



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Earth, And God made the grass to grow up out of 
the earth, and the trees and shrubs that have fruit on 
them. And the grass and the shrubs and the trees 
were to bear seeds, so that when these seeds were put 
in-to the ground more grass and trees and shrubs would 
grow there. God did these things on the third day. 

And God put two great lights in the sky, the Sun 
to shine by day, and the Moon to shine by night ; 
and he made the stars, and put each one in its place. 
And these things he did on the fourth day. 

And he made the great whales, and all the fish 
that live in the sea, and the birds that swim on it, as 
well as those that fly through the air, and make their 
nests in the deep woods. And these things God did 
on the fifth day. 

God made the beasts: those that are wild and 
live in the deep, dark woods, far from the homes of 
men; and those that are tame and of use to men, 
and live where men live — such as the horse, the cow, 
the ox and the sheep. And he made the things that 
creep on the ground, and flies and bugs that course 
through the air. 

And then God made Man, and told him that he 
should rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, 
and all else that lived on the earth. And he told 
man that the fruit which grew on the trees and shrubs 
should be his food, while the beasts were to feed on 




AD-AM AND EVE DRIVEN FROM PAR-A-DISE. 



History of the Old Testament. 

the leaves, and on the grass that was spread out on 
the earth. These things were done on the sixth day. 

The next day God did no work at all, but made 
it a day of rest. 

God made man out of the dust of the earth, and 
breathed in him till the man breathed and moved, 
and showed signs of life. Then God made a gar-den 
for man to live in, where all sorts of trees grew that 
were nice to look at, and that bore fruit good to eat. 
And this place was called E-den. And through it 
flowed a large stream that kept the earth moist. 

And God took Ad-am, the man he had made, 
and put him in the gar-den, and told him to take care 
of it. He told him he might eat of the fruit that 
grew on all the trees but one. God said he must 
not eat of that tree, for if he did he would be sure to 
die. And all the birds and beasts came to Adam, 
that he might give them their names. And the 
names he gave them are those by which they are 
known to this day. 

And God saw it was not good for man to be 
a-lone ; he should have some one to be with him and 
help him. So he had a deep sleep fall on Ad-am, 
and while he slept God took out of his side a bone, 
and out of this bone he made a wo-man. Then he 
brought this wo-man he had made to Ad-am, and 
she was his wife. 






God Made the World, 

Now there was in this gar-den of E-den a great 
big snake. And this snake spoke to the wo-man — 
as Sa-tan speaks to us — to tempt her to sin. 

The snake said: Has God told you not to eat of 
all the trees in the gar-den ? 

And the wo-man said that they might eat of all 
but one ; if they ate of that or touched it they would 
be sure to die. The snake told them they should 
not die, and that God did not wish them to eat of it 
for fear they would grow wise, and know more than 
he thought was good for them. 

The wo-man heard what the snake said, and when 
she saw that the tree was nice to look at and the fruit 
seemed good to eat, she gave no thought to what 
God had said, but took some of the fruit and ate of it ; 
she gave some to the man, Ad-am, and he did eat. 

In a short time they heard a voice, and knew that 
God spoke to them. Yet they did not come near 
him when they heard his voice, but ran and tried to 
hide from him. 

But God spoke once more, and said to the man, 
Where art thou ? 

And Ad-am said, I heard thy voice, and my fear 
was so great that I hid from thee. 

And God said, Did'st thou eat of the tree I told 
thee not to eat of? 

And the man said, She whom thou dids't give 



History of the Old Testament. 

me to be with me brought me some of the fruit, and 
I did eat. 

And God said to the man's wife, What is this 
that thou hast done ? 

And she told God what the snake had said, and 
how she came to eat of the fruit, and God was wroth 
with them all. He said the snake should crawl on 
the ground and eat dust all the days of its life ; and 
he told the wife she should know what it was to be 
sick and sad, and should have much grief and care. 

And God drove the man and his wife out of 
E-den, and would let them live no more in that fair 
place. And he sent an-gels to keep watch, and a 
sword of fire that would turn in all ways, so that the 
two whom God for their sins drove out of E-den 
could not get back to the home they had lost. 

And God told Ad-am that as he had paid heed 
to what his wife said, and did eat of the tree which 
the Lord had told him not to eat of, the ground 
should bear no more fruit for him by it-self, as it had 
done up to this time, and Ad-am would have to work 
hard all his life to raise food to eat, and when he died he 
would go back to the dust out of which he was made. 

But God told Ad-am and his wife that there was 
a way by which their souls might live on high when 
their flesh was laid in the ground. He said he 
would send One from the sky who would give his 
life for theirs: that is A he would be put to death for 



God Made the World, 



their sins. Then if they would turn from their sins, 
and give their hearts to the One who was to^ save 
them, God 
would not turn 
his face from 
them, but when 
they died they 
would have a 
home with him, 
and have no 
thought of sin. 
So Ad-am 
went forth to 
till the land, 
and he gave his 
wife the name 
of Eve. And 
they made 
coats out of the 
skins of beasts. 
Ad-am and 
his wife had 
two sons : Cain 
and A-bel. 
When they 

grew up to be men, Cain, who was the first-born, took 
care of a farm ; A-bel kept a flock of sheep. 




CAIN AND A-BEL OF-FER-ING SAC-RI-FI-CES TO GOD. 






History of the Old Testament. 

They both had bad hearts, and at times would be 
led in-to sin, just as Ad-am and his wife had been. 
But when A-bel did wrong he was grieved, and 
sought to make peace with God. One day he brought 
a lamb from his flock, and killed it, and burnt it on 
a heap of stones. And the smoke went up on high. 

This act of A-bel's pleased God, for it was the 
sign that a Lamb was to be sent to the world to save 
men from their sins. 

But Cain kept on in his sins, and paid his vows 
to God not with a lamb, but with fruit or grain out 
of the field. This did not please God, and the 
smoke went not up on high. When Cain saw this 
he was in a rage, and showed by his looks that he 
was wroth with God. Yet God spoke to him in a 
kind voice, and said, Why art thou wroth ? and why 
art thou so cast down ? 

If Cain did right God told him he would be 
pleased with his gift ; but if he did not do right, the 
fault was his own. 

Then Cain was wroth with A-bel, for he saw that 
God was pleased with A-bel's gift and not with his. 
And one day when both of them were out in the 
field he rose up and slew A-bel, and the blood ran 
out of A-bel's wounds and sank deep in the ground. 

As soon as this deed was done, God spoke to 
Cain, and said ; Where is A-bel ? 



God Made the World. 



Cain said, I know not. He is not in my care. 
Then God, who had seen the crime, and knew just 
how bad his heart was, said to Cain : What hast 
thou done ? 
The voice of A- 
bel's blood cries 
to me from out 
the ground. " 

And God 
told Cain that 
for his great sin 
he should move 
from place to 
place, as one 
who was in fear 
of his life, and 
had no home to 
stay in. And 
if he should 
plant aught in 
the field to bear 
food, it should 
not grow well. 
Weeds would come up and choke it, or it would bear 
leaves and no fruit, so that Cain would not have 
much to eat. 

And Cain said if God drove him here and there 




THE DEATH OF A-BEL. 



History of the Old Testament. 

on the face of the earth, and would not take care of 
him, all those who met him would want to kill him. 

But God said the man who hurt Cain would have 
a worse fate. God set a mark on Cain ; what kind 
of a mark it was we are not told, but those who saw 
it would know it was Cain, and it would bring to 
their minds chat God had said no man should kill him. 

Ad-am lived to be an old, old man, and had a 
large flock of chil-dren, who grew up and were wed, 
and they went off and made homes, and day by day 
were folks born in-to the world. When Ad-am died 
he was laid in the ground and went back to dust, as 
God had said he should when he went out of E-den. 

One of the men who lived in those days was 
named E-noch. It is said of him that he walked 
with God. That means that he loved God, and 
thought of him, and kept near him all the time, and 
did his best to please him. 

And E-noch did not die, but God took him up 
to be with him while he still lived, just as if he were 
to take up one of us. 

And E-noch had a son whose name was Me-thu- 
se-lah, who died at a great old age. In those times 
men lived more years than they do now, but in all 
the years since the w r orld was made no man has been 
known to live to be as old as Me-thu-se-lah. 



THE GREAT FLOOD; AND A GREAT TOWER 



In the course of time, when there came to be 
more folks in the world, they grew fond of sin. 
They did not love 
God, or try to please 
him. And God was 
wroth with them, and 
said he would send 
a flood that would 
drown the world, 
and there should 
not be any dry land 
left for men, beasts, 
or birds to live on. 

But though most 
of the folks at that 
time were as bad as 
they could be, there 
was one good man 
in their midst, and 
his name was No-ah. 

And God loved No-ah and told him what he 
meant to do. And God bade No-ah build an ark. 




THE ARK. 



History of the Old Testament. 

This was a boat. It was to be made large, with 
rooms in it, and a great door on its side. And it 
was to be quite high, and to have a roof on top. 

And God told No-ah when the ark was done he 
and his sons and their wives should go in it. 

And he told No-ah to take in with him two of 
each kind of bird and of beast, and of bug, and of 
things that crept, and to take care of them in the ark 
so long as the flood should be on the earth ; for all 
that were not in the ark would be sure to be drowned. 

So No-ah set out at once to build the ark; and 
it took him a great while to build it. When not at 
work on the ark, he would talk of God, and of his 
plan to send a flood to wash sin out of the world, and 
would urge the folks to give up their sins, and lead 
good lives. But they paid no heed to his words, 
and went from bad to worse all the time that No-ah 
was at work on the ark. 

When it was done God told No-ah to come in-to 
the ark, for he saw he was a good man who had 
done his best to serve him, and to bring the birds 
and beasts with him. For in a few days he would 
send the rain on the earth, and all that was left on it 
would be drowned. 

So No-ah did as God told him. And when he 
and his wife, and his three sons and their wives, and 
the birds and the beasts, both small and great, had 



History of the Old Testament. 

passed through the great door of the ark, God shut 
them in. 

At the end of a week the rain set in, and did not 
stop for more than a month. The rain seemed to 
pour out of the sky, and all the springs, the large and 
small streams, and the great seas, rose up and swept 
through the length and breadth of the land. They 
came to where the ark was, and went round and 
round it, and rose so high that the ark was borne 
from its place and set a-float on the great wide sea. 

Then those who had paid no heed to No-ah, but 
had kept on in their sins, were in a sad plight. The 
flood had come, and they knew now that all that he 
had told them was true. How glad they would 
have been to go with him in the ark. But it was too 
late. They ran in wild haste to the tops of the hills 
in hopes to find there a safe place. But still the 
floods rose and rose till there was no place for them 
to go, and all those not in the ark were drowned, 
and there was not a bit of dry land in the whole wide 
world. 

But God took care of No-ah, and those who were 
with him, and kept them safe till the floods went 
down. At the end of five months the sea had gone 
down so much that the ark stood high and dry on a 
mount known as Ar-a-rat. It stood there for at 
least two months, and at the end of that time the 



The Great Flood ; and a Great Tower. 



sea had gone down so that tops of high hills could 
be seen here and there. 

And No-ah sent forth a ra-ven, and the bird flew 
this way and that, 
but came not back 
to the ark. 

Then No-ah 
sent forth a dove, 
that he might find 
out if the ground was 
yet dry. And the 
dove flew here and 
there in search of 
green things, but 
found not a tree in 
sight, and naught 
but cold hard rock, 
and so she flew back 
to the ark and No-ah 
put out his hand and 
took her in. 

At the end of a 
week No-ah sent out 
the dove once more, and at the close of the day 
she came back with a leaf in her mouth. 

As soon as No-ah saw the leaf he knew that the 
Waves had gone down or the dove could not have 

Y. F. B.— 4 ° 




THE RE-TURN OF THE DOVE. 



History of the Old Testament 

found it. And he knew that God had sent the dove 
back to him that he might know the ground would 
soon be dry. 

In a few days he sent the dove out for the third 
time, but she did not come back; and No-ah was 
sure then that the ground was dry, and that God 
meant that for a sign that he should leave the ark in 
which he had been shut up so long. 

And God spoke to No-ah and told him to come 
out of the ark, and to bring out all that had been in 
there with him. And No-ah did so, and he built 
up a heap of stones as A-bel had done, on which he 
laid beasts and birds, and burnt them, which was the 
way in which man gave thanks to God in those 
days. 

And No-ah's heart was full of praise to God, 
who had kept him, and those who were near and 
dear to him, safe from the flood, while all the rest of 
the world was drowned. 

And God told No-ah and his sons that they 
should rule on the earth, and might kill the beasts 
and use the flesh for food. Up to this time those 
who dwelt on the earth had lived on the fruits of 
trees and such things as grew out of the ground, and 
did not know the taste of meat. 

And God told No-ah that he would send no 
more floods to drown the world as this one had done. 



The Great Flood ; and a Great Tower, 



And he gave No-ah a sign that he would keep his 
word, so that when No-ah saw it he would have no 
fear of a flood. 
And this sign 
the rain- 



was 

bow, which God 
set up in the sky 
as a bow of hope 
to No-ah and to 
all the world. 

No-ah lived 
for years and 
years af-ter the 
flood, and died 
at a ripe old age. 

The tribes of 
No-ah grew so 
fast that the 
world was quite 
well filled once 
more. 

And you 
would think they 

, TT ^„1 1 1 "L NO-AH'S SAC-RI-FICE. 

would have been 

glad to serve God, and to do right in his sight. But 
their hearts were full of sin, and they went on as 
those had done who were drowned in the flood. 




The Great Flood ; and a Great Tower. 



At this time all those who dwelt on the earth 
spoke but one tongue; that is, they used the same 
kind of speech. 

Now these tribes did not stay in one spot all the 
time, but would pack 
up their tents and move 
from place to place as 
they chose. 

And as they went 
to the east they came 
to a plain in the land of 
Shi-nar. And they 
said, Let us make brick 
and build a high tow-er 
that shall reach up to 
the sky. And let us 
make a name, so that 
when we go from this 
place it will be known 
what great men were 
here, and what great 
deeds they could do. 

And they set to 

1 . 1 • 1 I • . •"> -I BUILD-ING THE TOW-ER OF BA-BEL. 

work to build it. (Jiod, 

who read their hearts, knew that sin was at work 
there, and that the tow-er they meant to build was 
not to serve him in, or to add to his praise. So he 




Histoty of the Old Testament 

was not pleased with their work, and chose a strange 
way to stop them. He made them all at once speak 
in strange tongues. This one could not tell what 
that one said, and they made such a noise that it 
grew to be just a ba-bel of sound. And that is why 
it was called the tow-er of Ba-bel. 



ABRAHAM: THE MAN OF FAITH 



There dwelt in the land of Ur a man whose 
name was A-bra-ham. And in that land the men 
did not serve the true God, but had set up false gods 
to whom they paid their vows. 

And God told A-bra-ham to leave his home and 
go to a land which he would show him. A-bra-ham 
did not know where the land was, but he had great 
faith, and knew that God would take care of him and 
bring him to the land he had told him of. 

So A-bra-ham took Sa-rah, his wife, and his 
bro-thers son, whose name was Lot, and they set out 
for the land which God had said he would show 
him. 

A-bra-ham was a rich man, and so was Lot, and 
they had a great wealth of flocks, and of herds, and 



Abraham : the Man of Faith. 

of tents. And they each had a large force of herds- 
men. And these herds-men were at strife. 

And A-bra-ham told Lot it was best that they 
should part ; and he said to him, Choose where thou 
shalt go. If thou wilt take the left hand I will goto 
the right, and if thou wilt go to the right hand then 
I will go to the left. 

So Lot looked round and saw that the plain of 
Jor-dan was rich in grass, and would be a fine place 
for him and his herds to dwell in; so he made his 
choice at once, and went to live there. 

Two large towns were on this plain, Sod-om and 
Go-mor-rah. The men in Sod-om were full of sin, 
yet Lot, though a good man, went to live there that 
he might have a chance to add to his wealth. 

As soon as Lot had gone, the Lord told A-bra- 
ham that he would give to him and his heirs all that 
land as far as he could see it. And the tribe of 
A-bra-ham would be so great that no one could 
count them. 

Now Sa-rah A-bra-ham's wife, had a hand-maid 
— that is, a maid-of-all-work — whose name was Ha- 
gar; and she came from E-gypt. Ha-gar did Sa- 
rah a great wrong, and Sa-rah drove her from the 
house, and she fled to the woods. 

An an-gel of the Lord found Ha-gar there by a 
spring of wa-ter, and said to her, From whence 



History of the Old Testament, 

didst thou come ? and where wilt thou go ? And she 
said she had fled from Sa-rah, whose maid she was. 

And the an-gel said she must go back to Sa-rah 
and do as she wished her to do. And he told Ha- 
gar she would have a son whose name would be 
Ish-ma-el, and that he would live out of doors and be 
at strife with all men. So Ha-gar went back to Sa- 
rah, and in due time God gave her a son, who was 
called Ish-ma-el. 

When A-bra-ham was an old man, God told him 
that he and Sa-rah should have a son, who should 
be called I-saac. 

One day at the hour of noon, when A-bra-ham 
sat by the door of his tent, he looked up and saw 
three men quite near him. Then he ran out to 
meet them, and bowed his face to the ground. And 
A-bra-ham bade them sit down and rest, and let 
some wa-ter be brought that they might wash their 
feet. 

No one in those days wore such shoes as are 
worn now. Some went bare-foot, and some wore 
just a sole tied to the foot with strings, which did 
not keep off the dust and dirt as our shoes do. 

So when one came in from a long walk the first 
thing he did was to bathe his feet, as that gave rest 
and ease, and when guests came the bowl was 
brought for their use. 



Abraham : the Man of Faith. 



And A-bra-ham brought them food to eat, and 
stood by to wait on them ; and when they had had 
their fill, went 
with them to 
show them the 
way. 

In those 
days the Lord 
came down on 
the earth and 
spoke with men, 
and it is thought 
that one of these 
three was the 
Lord, and the 
two with him 
were an-gels. 

And the 
Lord told 
A-bra-ham that 
he meant to burn 
Sod-om and Go- 
mor-rah for the 
sins of those 
who dwelt there. This made A-bra-ham sad, and he 
said there might be a few good men there, and he 
begged the Lord to spare the towns for their sakes. 




THE AN-GELS VIS-IT. 



History of the Old Testament, 

The Lord said he would do so if ten good men 
could be found there. 

And the Lord left A-bra-ham and he went back 
to his tent. At the close of the day, Lot sat in the 
gate of Sod-om and two an-gels came there. And as 
soon as Lot saw them he rose up to meet them and 
bowed down with his face to the ground. 

Then these an-gels told Lot to take out of Sod- 
om all those who were dear to him, and flee in great 
haste, as the Lord meant to set the place on fire. 

They were told not to look back, but while on 
their way Lot's wife turned her head, which was a 
sign that her heart was in Sod-om, and she died 
where she stood, and turned to salt. 

But Lot and his two girls reached Zo-ar at dawn 
of the next day. Then the Lord rained fire on Sod- 
om and Go-mor-rah, and they were burnt up in fierce 
flame, with all that lived there, and all that grew out 
of the ground. 

In due time God gave A-bra-ham the son he had 
said he should have. 

And the child grew, and as soon as it could eat, 
A-bra-ham made a great feast. And at this feast 
Sa-rah saw that Ha-gar's son, Ish-ma-el, made fun 
of her boy, and she begged A-bra-ham to cast him 
out. A-bra-ham did not wish to do this, but God 
spoke to him and told him to do as Sa-rah had said, 



Abraham : the Man of Faith, 



for I-saac was to be the true heir. So the next 
A-bra-ham gave food and drink to Ha-gar and 
her and her child out of his house. 

And Ha- 
gar took her 
boy and went 
to the waste 
lands of Beer- 
she-ba. 

And when 
there was 
nought for the 
child to drink, 
he grew weak, 
and was like 
to die. And 
Ha-gar laid 
him 'neath a 
bush and went 
off and sat 
down and hid 
her face, and 
wept, for she 
loved her boy 
very much and did not want to see him die. 

And a voice spoke to Ha-gar out of the sky, 
said, What ails thee, Ha-gar? Fear not, for 



day 
sent 




DE-STRUC-TION OF THE CIT-IES OF THE PLAIN. 



and 
God 



History of the Old Testament. 

hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Rise, 
lift up the lad and hold him in thine arms. 

And the voice told her that her son should be 
the head of a great tribe. And as she raised her 
eyes she saw a well of wa-ter, and she ran to it and 
gave her son a drink and he was soon strong and 
well once more. 

And God was kind to Ish-ma-el, and he grew, 
and made his home in the woods, and came to have 
great skill with the bow. 

Now it was God's wish to try the faith of A-bra- 
ham to him. 

And he told him to take his son, I-saac, and go 
to the land of Mo-riah, and lay him on the al-tar he 
was to build on one of the mounts there. It was 
not a hard task to kill a lamb, and to burn it so that 
the smoke of it should rise up to God, like praise 
from the hearts of men. But how could A-bra-ham 
take his own dear son, I-saac, and lay him on the 
wood, and let him be burnt up like a lamb ? 

Yet God told him to do it, and A-bra-ham knew 
that it was safe for him to do as God said. 

So he rose the next day and took two of his 
young men w*th him, and I-saac his son, and cut the 
wood the right length, and set out for the mount of 
which God had told him. 

And as they drew near the place he took the 



History of the Old Testament. 

wood from the ass and laid it on I-saacs back, and 
took the fire in his hand and a knife, and the two 
went up the mount. 

Now I-saac did not know what the Lord had 
told A-braham to do, nor why his fa-ther took him 
up to the mount. And he said, Here is the fire and 
the wood, but where is the lamb? 

And A-bra-ham said, My son, God will give us 
the lamb we need. 

And when they came to the place, A-bra-ham 
piled up the stones and put the wood on them, and 
bound I-saac and laid him on the wood. 

Then he drew forth the knife to kill his son. 
And just then a voice from the sky cried out, A-bra- 
ham ! A-bra-ham ! And A-bra-ham said, Here am I. 

And the Lord told him to do no harm to I-saac, 
for now he knew that A-bra-ham loved him, since he 
would not spare his own dear son if if was Gods 
wish that he should give him up. 

And as A-bra-ham turned his head he saw a ram 
that was caught in a bush, and he took the ram and 
laid it on the wood, and burnt it in-stead of his son. 

At the end of a few years A-bra-ham went to live 
at Heb-ron. And Sa-rah died there. 

When I-saac grew up to be a man, A-bra-ham 
did not wish him to take a wife from the land of Ca- 
naan where they served strange gods. 



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So he sent one of his men to the land where he 
used to live to bring back a wife for I-saac. 

And as he drew near to a large town in that 
land he made his cam- 
els kneel down by a 
well. And it was the 
time of day when the 
wo-men of the place 
went out to draw wa- 
ter from the well. 

And the man 
whom A-bra-ham had 
sent, asked God to 
help him, and to let 
him know which one 
of them was to be 
I-saac's wife. And 
he said he would ask 
one of them for a 
drink, and if she was 
kind and gave him a 
drink, and let his 
cam-els quench their 
thirst, then he should 
know that she was the one God chose to be the wife 
of A-bra-ham's son. 

And he raised his heart to God and said, O 




RE-BEK-AH AT THE WELL. 



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Lord God of A-bra-ham, give me good speed this 
day. 

And while he yet spoke a fair young maid named 
Re-bek-ah went down to the well and came up with 
the jar she had filled. And the man ran to meet 
her, and said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee. 

And she said, Drink, my Lord, and held the jar 
in her hand so that he could drink with ease. 

Then she said, I will give thy cam-els a drink; 
and she went down to the well and drew for all the 
cam-els. And the man stood still, and was yet 
in doubt if this was the maid whom God chose to be 
I-saac's wife. 

And as soon as the cam-els had drunk their fill, 
the man took a gold ear-ring, and two bands of gold 
for the wrists, and gave them to Re-bek-ah. And 
he said, Whose child art thou ? tell me, I pray 
thee. And is there room in thy sire's house for us 
to lodge in ? 

The maid said that her sire's name was Beth- 
u-el, and that there was no lack of straw and food, 
and there was room in the house where he and his 
men might lodge. 

The man was glad when he heard this, for he 
knew the Lord had led him, and had brought him 
to the house to which he was sent. And he bowed 
his head and gave thanks, 




Y. F. B.-5 



RE-BEK-AH JOUR-NEY-ING TO ISAAC. 



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The next day Re-bek-ah and her maids went 
with A-bra-ham's head man. And they came to the 
land of Ca-naan. 

At the close of the day I-saac went to walk in the 
fields, and as he raised his eyes he saw the cam-els 
on their way home, and he went out to meet them. 

Re-bek-ah said to the man with whom she rode, 
What man is this that comes through the field to 
meet us? 

And the man told her that it was A-bra-ham's 
son, I-saac 

Then the maid drew her veil round her so as to 
hide her face, and came down from the cam-el. And 
I-saac took her to his house and made her his wife. 
And A-bra-ham gave all that he had to I-saac; and 
when he died he was laid by the side of Sa-rah, his 
wife, in the tomb he had bought at Mach-pe-lah. 

And to this day no one has had such faith or 
trust in God as did A-bra-ham, 



JA-COB AND E-SAU 



I-saac and Re-bek-ah had two sons. Their 
names were Ja-cob and E-sau. E-sau was the first- 




THE MEET-ING OF I-SAAC AND RE-BEK-AH. 



History of the Old Testament, 

born, and in those days the first-born son had what 
was called the birth-right. This made him chief of 
all the rest, and heir to the most of his sire's wealth. 

When the boys grew up to be men, E-sau took 
to the fields and to out-door sports, while Ja-cob 
was a plain man and dwelt in tents. And I-saac 
was fond of E-sau, who killed the deer, and brought 
him the meat to eat. But Re-bek-ah was more fond 
of Ja-cob. 

One day Ja-cob had made some food called pot- 
tage, and E-sau came in from the field and said, 
Feed me, I pray thee, with that pot-tage, for I am 
faint. 

And Ja-cob said, Sell me thy birth-right. 

And E-sau said, I am at the point of death, so 
what good will a birth-right do me ? 

So he sold his birth-right to Ja-cob — which was 
a wrong thing for him to do — and took the bread 
and meat, and ate and drank, and then went on his 
way. 

Now there came a time when I-saac was an old 
man, and his eyes were dim, for he had not long to 
live. And he called E-sau to his bed-side and told 
him to go out with his bow and shoot a deer and bring 
him some of the meat he was so fond of, that he 
might eat it and bless E-sau ere he died. 

And Re-bek-ah heard what I-saac had said to 



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E-sau, and she told it to Ja-cob. And she said to 
him, Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence 
two good kids, and I will make such a dish as thy 
fa-ther loves. And 
thou shalt bring it to 
him that he may eat, 
and that he may bless 
thee ere his death. 

So Ja-cob did as 
he was told, and 
brought the kids to his 
mo-ther that she 
might cook them in 
a way that would 
please the good man 
of the house. 

Then Re-bek-ah 
put some of E-sau's 
clothes on Ja-cob, and 
put the skins of goats 
on his hands, for 
E-sau's hands had on 
them a thick coat of 
hair. And then Ja-cob took the meat and the 
bread and went in to his fa-ther. 

And I-saac said, Who art thou, my son? 

And Ja-cob said, I am E-sau, thy first-born, 




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Rise, I pray thee, and eat of the deer's meat I have 
brought, that thy soul may bless me. 

And I-saac said to Ja-cob, How is it that thou 
hast found it so soon, my son ? 

And he said, The Lord thy God brought it to me. 

And I-saac said to Ja-cob, Come near, I pray 
thee, that I may feel thee, my son, and know if thou 
be my son E-sau or not. And Ja-cob went near to 
his fa-ther and he felt him, and said, The voice is 
Ja-cob's voice, but the hands are the hands of E-sau. 

And he said, Art thou in truth my son E-sau ? 

And Ja-cob said, I am. 

And he said, Bring near the food, and I will eat, 
that my soul may bless thee. 

And Ja-cob brought it near to him, and he did 
eat, and he brought him wine and he drank. 

And his fa-ther said to him, Come near now, and 
kiss me, my son. 

And he came near, and gave him the kiss. Then 
the old man asked God to bless this whom he 
thought was his first-born, and make him great, and 
give him all good things. 

Ja-cob was scarce yet gone out from his fa-ther 
when E-sau came in from the hunt. And he 
brought in a nice dish of meat, and said, Let my fa- 
ther rise and eat of the flesh of the deer, that thy 
soul may bless me. 



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And I-saac said, Who art thou? 

And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, E-sau. 

And I-saac shook like a leaf, and said, Who? 
Where is he that took deer's meat and brought it to 
me so that I did eat ere 
this, and bless him? 
Yea, and he shall be 
blest. 

When E-sau heard 
these words he cried out 
with great grief, and said 
to his fa-ther, Bless me 
too, O my fa-ther! 

But I-saac said that 
he could not take from 
Ja-cob what was now 
his — though he had won 
it through fraud. 

And E-sau said in 
his heart, My fa-ther will 
soon be dead, and then 
I will kill Ja-cob. 

And these words 
were told to Re-bek-ah, and she sent for Ja-cob 
said to him that E-sau meant to kill him, and 
must leave home at once and go and stay with 
bro-ther La-ban till E-sau's wrath had cooled. 




ja-cob's dream. 



and 

he 

her 



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And Ja-cob went out from Beer-she-ba. 

And as he went on his way he came to a place 
where he thought he would lie down and rest. The 
sun was set, the day had been a long one, and he 
was quite worn out. So he put some stones for his 
head to rest on, and was soon sound a-sleep. 

And while he slept he had a strange dream. He 
saw a flight of steps that stood on the ground, the top 
of which was far, far up in the sky. And bright an- 
gels went up and down the steps. And the Lord 
stood at the top, and said, I am with thee, and will 
take care of thee, and will bring thee back to this 
land, for I will not leave thee till I have done that 
which I have told thee of. 

And Ja-cob woke out of his sleep, and said, 'Tis 
true the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. 

And he was in great fear, and said, This is the 
house of God, and this is the gate of heav-en ! 

Then he rose up and took the stone on which 
his head had lain and set it up on end, and he 
poured oil on top of it. And he gave to that place 
the name of Beth-el, and made a vow to love and 
serve God all the rest of his life. 

And though he had done wrong, God for-gave 
him, and he was known as a great and good man. 



JACOB AND RACHEL 



As Ja-cob went on his way to the East he came 
to a well that was out 
in the field, near which 
lay three great flocks 
of sheep. And there 
was a great stone on 
top of the well. And 
the men who took care 
of the flocks would roll 
the stone from the 
mouth of the well, and 
give drink to the sheep. 
Then they would roll 
the stone back to the 
mouth of the well. 

Ja-cob said to the 
men, Whence do ye 
come? 

And they told him. 

And he said, Know 
ye La-ban, the son of 
Na-hor? 

And they said, We know him. 




RA-CHEL AND JA-COB AT THE WELL. 



History of the Old Testament, 

And he said. Is he well? 

And they said, He is well. And there is one of 
his girls now, Ra-chel, and she comes this way with 
her sheep. 

While Ja-cob yet spake with the men, Ra-chel 
came up with the sheep that she took care of. And 
when Ja-cob saw her, he came near, and drew the 
stone from the mouth of the well, and gave drink to 
the whole of her flock. 

And as soon as he told her that he was Re-bek- 
ah's son, she ran home with the news. 

And when La-ban heard that his sis-ter's son was 
near, he ran out to meet him, and threw his arms 
round his neck and kissed him, and brought him 
to his house. 

And Ja-cob dwelt there for the space of a month. 

And La-ban said to Ja-cob, Thou art bone of my 
bone and flesh of my flesh, but it is not right for thee 
to serve me for nought. Tell me how much I shall 
pay thee? 

Now La-ban had two girls — Le-ah and Ra-chel. 
And Ja-cob was in love with Ra-chel; and he said 
to La-ban, I will serve thee seven years if thou wilt 
give me Ra-chel for a wife. 

And La-ban said it would please him to have 
Ja-cob for a son-in-law, and Ja-cob served sev-en years 
for Ra-chel, and they seemed to him but a few days, 



Jacob and Rachel. 

so great was his love for her. And at the end of 
that time Ja-cob said to La-ban, Give me my wile, 
for I have served thee my full time. 

And La-ban made a feast, and brought in Le-ah 
to be Ja-cob's wife. In those days the bride wore a 
veil, and the man she wed could not look on her face 
till the next day. 

So Ja-cob did not find out this trick till the next 
morn, and then he came in great wrath to La-ban 
and said, What is this thou hast done to us ? Did I 
not serve with thee for Ra-chel ? and why did'st thou 
cheat me ? 

And La-ban said, In our land the first-born must 
wed the first. Serve me sev-en years more, and thou 
shalt have Ra-chel for a wife. And Ja-cob did so, 
and though he dwelt with both — which was thought 
to be no sin in those days — he was far more fond of 
Ra-chel than he was of Le-ah. 

Le-ah bore Ja-cob a host of sons, but it was years 
ere Ra-chel had a child. And this made her sad. 
But at last she had a son, and she called his name 
Jo-seph. And as soon as Jo-seph was born Ja-cob 
told La-ban to give him his wives and all the goods 
that he owned, and let him go back to the land he 
came from. 

But La-ban begged him to stay. He had found, 
he said, that the Lord had blest him for Ja-cob's 



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sake, and he might have some of the land and the 
flocks if he would still serve him. 

So Ja-cob took care of La-ban's flocks, and had 
sheep and goats of his own, and things went well 
for a time. 

But one day Ja-cob heard La-ban's sons say some 
hard things of him, and he saw that La-ban did not 
give him the kind looks that he used to. And he 
felt that the time had come for them to part. And 
the Lord told Ja-cob to go back to the land he came 
from, and he would deal well with him. And Ja- 
cob took his wives, and the flocks and the goods he 
owned, and set out for the land of Ca-naan. 

Ja-cob sent one of his men to E-sau to say that 
he was on his way home, and was in hopes he would 
find grace in his sight. 

And the man brought back word that E-sau was 
on his way to meet Ja-cob with a large force of men. 
And Ja-cob thought of the wrongs he had done his 
broth-er, and was in great fear of him. 

He sought the help of God, and God told him 
what to do. And Ja-cob sent great droves of sheep 
and goats, and ewes and rams, and camels and colts, 
and cows, and choice ones from all his live stock, as 
a gift to E-sau. 

And at night, when no one else was near, a man 
whose face shone with a strange light, came to J a- 



Jacob and Rachel. 



cob and wound his arms round him and tried to 
throw him. And the two strove so hard that 
Ja-cob's thigh was put out of joint. 

And as it grew «- 
light the man said, Let || 
me go, for the day 
breaks. 

Ja-cob said, I will 
not let thee go till thou 
hast blest me. 

And the man said, 
What is thy name? 
And he said, Ja-cob. 

And he said Thy 
name shall be no more 
Ja-cob but Is-ra-el, for 
as a prince thou hast 
pow-er with God and 
with men. 

And when he had 
blest Ja-cob he went 
his way. And Ja-cob 
gave the place the name 

r -r-\ 1 C * 1 1 THE MEET-ING OF JA-COB AND E-SAU. 

ot re-ni-el, tor, said he, 

I have seen God face to face and my life has been 
spared. For Ja-cob knew by this that E-sau would 
not kill him, 




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When Ja-cob was an old, old man Ra-chel bore 
him a son; and they called his name Ben-ja-min, 
And Ra-chel died. And it was hard for Ja-cob to 
have her die and leave him, for his love for her was 
great, and she was a good wife to him. 



JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN 



Ja-cob had twelve sons, and he was more fond of 
Jo-seph than of all the rest; for he was the child of 
his old age. And he gave him a fine coat, and made 
a great pet of him. This did not please the rest of 
the sons, and they showed their hate of Jo-seph in 
all sorts of ways. 

One night Jo-seph had a strange dream, and he 
told it to Le-vi, Sim-e-on, and the rest, and it made 
them hate him all the more. 

He said, As we bound sheaves in the field, lo, 
my sheaf rose and stood up straight. And your 
sheaves stood round, and bowed to my sheaf. 

And those who heard him said, Shalt thou in- 
deed reign o'er us ? And his words and his deeds 
filled them with a fierce hate. 

And it was not long ere he told them of a fresh 



foseph and his Brethren. 



dream he had had, in which he saw the sun and 
moon and e-lev-en stars bow down to him. And he 
told it to Ja-cob, 
and his e-lev-en 
sons. 

And Ja-cob 
took him to task, 
and said to him, 
What does this 
dream mean ? Are 
all of us to bow 
down to the earth 
to thee? And he 
made up his mind 
to watch these 
signs, which might 
be sent of God. 

Now Ja-cob 
had large flocks 
of sheep and goats 
at Shech-em, and 
all of his sons but 
Jo-seph had gone 
there to feed them. 
And Ja-cob said to Jo-seph, Go and see if it be well 
with thy brethren, and with the flocks, and bring me 
back word. 

Y. F. B.— 6 




JO-SEPH S DREAM. 



History of the Old Testament 

And Jo-seph went out from the vale of Heb-ron 
to the land of Shech-em. 

When he came there he found that his broth-ers 
had gone on to Do-than. And Ja-cob went to Do- 
than and found them. And as soon as he came in 




SHECH-EM, THE FIRST CAP-I-TAL OF THE KING-DOM OF IS-RAEL. 

sight they thought of a way in which they might get 
rid of him. 

Come, let us kill him, they said ; and throw him 
in-to a pit, and say that a wild beast ate him up. 
Then we shall see what will be-come of his dreams. 

But Reu-ben heard it, and saved him out of their 
hands. And he said, Let us not kill the lad. Shed 
no blood ; but cast him in-to this pit, and lay no hand 



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on him. For he meant to take him out of the pit, 
and bear him home to his fath-er. 

But when Jo-seph came near these men who 
should have been kind 
to him, they took off his 
coat and threw him in-to 
the pit, which was dry, 
or he would have 
drowned. These old 
dry wells were left as 
traps in which to catch 
the wild beasts that 
prowled round in the 
dead of light, and well 
these bad men knew 
what would be Jo-seph's 
fate. 

As they sat down to 
eat, they looked up and 
saw a lot of men and 
cam-els on their way to 
E-gypt, with spices, and 
balm and myrrh. 

And Ju-dah — one of Ja-cobs sons — said, Let us 
not kill the lad, for he is of our own flesh, but let us 
sell him to these men. And the rest thought it was 
a good scheme. So they drew Jo-seph up out of the 




JO-SEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTH-ERS. 



History of the Old Testament, 

pit and sold him for a small sum, and those who 
bought the lad took him down with them to E-gypt. 

And the bad men took Jo-seph's coat and dipped 
it in the blood of a kid they had slain. And they 
brought it to Ja-cob, and said, This have we found. 
Is it thy son's coat? 

And Ja-cob knew it at once, and said, It is my 
son's coat. Jo-seph has no doubt been the prey of 
borne wild beast. And his grief was great. 

The men who bought Jo-seph brought him down 
to E-gypt and sold him to Pot-i-phar for a slave. 

And the Lord was with Jo-seph, who served Pot- 
i-phar so well, that the rich man put him in charge of 
his home and lands. But Pot-i-phar's wife told false 
tales, and Jo-seph, who had done no wrong, was thrust 
in-to jail. Pha-ra-oh was then king of E-gypt. And 
it came to pass that he fell out with his but-ler and 
chief cook, and had them shut up in the same place 
where Jo-seph was bound. 

And the man on guard put them in charge of Jo- 
seph, who went in and out of the ward as he chose. 
And one morn when he came in to them he saw they 
were sad, and asked them why it was. 

And they said, We have dreamed dreams, and 
there is no one to tell us what they mean. 

And Jo-seph said, Tell me them, I pray you. 

And the chief but-ler told his dream to Jo-seph 



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first. And he said, In my dream I saw a vine, that put 
forth three branch-es and brought forth ripe grapes. 

And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shall 
Pha-ra-oh lift 
up thine head, 
and put thee 
back in thy 
place, and thou 
shalt serve him 
as of old. But 
think of me 
when it shall 
be well with 
thee ; speak of 
me to the king, 
and bring me 
out of this house. 

And the 
but-ler said that 
he would. 

Then the 
chief cook told 
his dream; and 
he said, In my dream I had three white bas-kets on 
my head. And in the top one were all sorts of bake 
meats for the king. And the birds did eat out of 
the bas-ket that I bore on my head. 




JOSEPH S COAT. 



History of the Old Testament. 

And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shall 
Pha-ra-oh lift up thy head and hang thee on a tree ; 
and the birds shall eat the flesh from thy bones. 

The third day was the kings birth-day, and he 
made a great feast. And he put the chief but-ler 
back in his place, and hung the chief cook ; just as 
Jo-seph had said he would do. But the chief but-ler 
gave not a thought to Jo-seph, nor spoke one good 
word for him to the king, as he had said he would. 

Two years from this time the king had a dream, 
from which he woke, and then fell asleep and dreamt 
the self-same dream. This was such a strange thing 
that it made the king feel ill at ease. And he sent 
for all the wise men in the land to tell him what these 
dreams meant. 

Then the chief but-ler spoke to the king, and said 
that when he and the cook were in jail, there was a 
young man there, a Jew, whom the chief of the guard 
made much use of. And we told him our dreams, 
and he told us what they meant. And it came out 
just as he said. 

Then the king sent at once for Jo-seph, and said 
to him: In my dream I stood on the bank of the 
Nile. And there came up out of the riv-er seven fat 
cows, and they fed in a field near by. Then sev-en 
lean cows came up that were naught but skin and 
bone. And the lean cows ate up the fat cows. And 



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yet no one would have known it, for they were just 
as lean as when I first saw them. Then I woke, 
but soon fell a-sleep once more. 

Then I dreamt, and in my dream I saw sev-en 
ears of corn come up on one stalk, full and good. 
And lo, sev-en ears 
that were thin and 
dried up with the east 
wind sprang up af-ter 
them. And the poor 
ears ate up the good 
ones. 

Jo-seph said, For 
sev-en years there will 
be no lack of food in 
the land, and all will 
go well ; and then there 
will come a time of 
great want, and rich 
and poor will be in 
need of food, and not 
a few will starve to 
death. Let the king choose a wise man to see that 
corn is laid up in the land when the good years 
bring the rich growth, so that there will be no lack 
of food in the years when the crops are small. 

And the king said to Jo-seph, Since God hath 




PHA-RA-OH S DREAM. 



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showed thee all this there is none so wise as thou 
art. So he put him in charge of all the land of 
E-gypt, and he was to rank next to the king. And 
the king took a ring from his own hand and put it 
on Jo-seph's hand, and when he rode out, men bowed 
the knee, and his word was law in all the land. 
And Jo-seph took a wife, and he who was brought 
to E-gypt a slave, was now a rich man. 

And there came years when the grain grew rank 
in the fields, and the crops were large. And Jo-seph 
saw that a large part of it was laid up, and that there 
was no waste of the good food. For the end of those 
rich years came and then there was a time of dearth 
in all the lands, when the earth would not yield, and 
men and beasts were in want of food. 

But there was no lack of corn in E-gypt. And 
Jo-seph sold the corn that he had stored in the 
barns, and crowds came in to buy it. 

When Ja-cob heard that corn could be bought in 
E-gypt, he told his sons to go down and buy some, 
that they might not starve to death. 

And ten of them went down to buy corn in 
E-gypt. But Ja-cob kept Ben-ja-min at home, 
for fear he would be lost to him as Jo-seph was 
lost. 

When Ja-cob's ten sons came to the place where 
Jo-seph was, they bowed down to the ground. And 




JOSEPH AND HIS BROTH-ERS. 



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Jo-seph knew them at once, but they did not know 
him, or give a thought to his dreams. 

And Jo-seph spoke in a rough voice, and said, 
Whence come ye? 

And they said, From the land of Ca-naan to buy 
food. 

And he said, Ye are spies, and have come to see 
how poor the land is. 

And they said to him, Nay, my lord, but to buy 
food are we come. We are all one man's sons ; and 
we are true men, and not spies. 

But Jo-seph would have it that they were 
spies. 

And they said, There were twelve of us, sons of 
one man. Young Ben-ja-min is at home with his 
fa-ther, and one is dead. 

And Jo-seph said, Go prove that ye are not spies; 
let one of the ten that are here go and fetch the young 
lad, Ben-ja-min. And he put them in jail for three 
days. And he said, Let one of you be bound, and 
kept in the guard-house, while the rest of you take 
back the corn that you need. And they said that 
they would do this. 

Then he took Sim-e-on from their midst, and had 
him bound, and put in the guard-house. 

And he sent word to his men to fill their sacks 
with corn, and to put back the price in each sack, and 



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to give them food to eat on the way. And thus did 
Jo-seph do good to those who did ill to him. 

When Ja-cob's nine sons went home they told all 
that had been 
said and done 
to them, and 
that the lord of 
the land bade 
them bring 
B e n - j a - m i n 
down to E-gypt 
or he would 
think they were 
spies, and their 
lives would not 
be safe. 

Ja-cobsaid, 
My son shall 
not go down 
with you, for 
his broth-er is 
dead, and he is 
all I have left. 
If harm should come to him on the way, I should 
die of grief. 

When the corn they had brought from E-gypt 
was all gone, Ja-cob told his sons to go down and 




THE MEET-ING OF JO SEPH AiND BEN-JA-MIN. 



History of the Old Testament. 

buy more. And Ju-dah spoke up and said, The 
man swore we should not see his face if Ben-ja-min 
was not with us. If thou wilt send him with us we 
will go; but if thou wilt not send him we will not 
go down. 

Then Ja-cob said, If it must be so, take Ben-ja- 
min with you, and may God give you grace with this 
man that he may send my two boys back to me. 

So the men took Ben-ja-min and went down to 
E-gypt, and stood face to face with Jo-seph. 

And they gave Jo-seph the gifts they had brought, 
and bowed down to the earth. And he asked how 
they all were, and if their fath-er was well ; and when 
he saw Ben-ja-min he said, Is this the young broth-er 
of whom you spoke ? And he said to the lad, God 
be good to thee, my son. 

And Jo-seph's heart was so full at sight of the 
boy, and he longed so to throw his arms round him, 
that he had to make haste and leave the room that 
his tears might not be seen. 

Then he came back and had the feast set out, 
and all did eat and drink, and were glad at heart. 
And when the time came for his guests to leave, Jo- 
seph told his head man to fill their sacks with corn, 
to put their gold back in the mouth of the sacks, and 
to put in the young lad's sack the cup from which 
Jo-seph drank at each meal. 



Joseph and his Brethren. 



This was done, and when they had gone out of 
the town Jo-seph bade his man go and say to them: 
My lord's cup is lost, and you must know who stole it. 

And when the man came up with Ja-cob's sons, he 
said just what 
Jo-seph told him 
to say. And 
they were all in 
a rage, and said: 
Why does my 
lord say such 
things of us? If 
the cup is found 
on one of us, 
kill him; and 
make the rest 
of us slaves. 

And each 
one of them cast 
his sack on the 
ground, and 
loosed it at the 
top. And the cup was found in Ben-ja-min's sack. 
Then they rent their clothes, and in great grief went 
back to Jo-seph's house and found him there. And 
they fell down at his feet. 

And Ju-dah said, God has found out our sins. 




JA-COB BLESS-ES JO-SEPH's CHIL-DREN. 



History of the Old Testament, 

Let us be your slaves ; and take him as well in whose 
sack the cup was found. 

Jo-seph said, No; but the man in whose sack the 
cup was found shall stay and serve me, and the rest 
shall go in peace. 

Then Ju-dah, who had sworn that he would bring 
back the boy, said to Jo-seph: If we go home, and 
our fath-er sees the lad is not with us, he will die of 
grief. For his life is bound up in the lad's life. 

Jo-seph could not keep back his tears, and when 
he had sent all the men of E-gypt out of the room, 
he said to his broth-ers, Come near, I pray you. 

And they came near. And he said, I am Jo- 
seph, whom ye sold in-to E-gypt. But grieve not 
that ye did this thing, for God did send me here that 
I might save your lives. Go home and tell my fath- 
er that God hath made me lord of all Egypt, and bid 
him come down to me at once. And say that he 
shall dwell near me, in the land of Go-shen, and I 
will take care of him. 

Then he fell on Ben-ja-min's neck, and they wept ; 
and he kissed his broth-ers and shed tears, but they 
were tears of joy. 

Ja-cob took all that he had and went down to 
E-gypt. And three-score and ten souls went with 
him. And they dwelt in the land of Go-shen, and 
Ja-cob died there. 



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Joseph's breth-ren thought that he would hate 
them now that their fath-er was dead. And they 
fell down at his feet and wept and prayed that he 
would do them no harm 

Jo-seph bade them fear not, for he would take 
care of them and be kind to them. They had meant 
to do him an ill turn when he was a lad, but God 
had made it turn out for good, and it was all right. 
And Jo-seph lived to a good old age, and had two 
sons, whose names were E-phra-im and Ma-nas-seh. 



THROUGH THE RED SEA AND THE 
WILDERNESS 



By and by there rose up a new King in E-gypt 
who knew not Jo-seph. He was called Pha-ra-oh, as 
this was the name by which all the kings of E-gypt 
were known. And he said there were more He- 
brews, or Jews, in the land than there ought to be, 
and if war should break out, and these Jews should 
take sides with the foes of Pha-ra-oh and his race, 
they would be sure to win. So he set them hard 
tasks, and made them bear great loads, and did all he 
could to vex them, and still they grew in strength. 
God had said they were to be as the stars in the sky, 



History of the Old Testament. 

and as the sands of the sea, that no one could count. 
And the king of E-gypt tried to stop this thing. 

And he made it a law that if a boy child was 
born to the He-brews it should be put to death at 
once ; but a girl child might live. And this was the 
cause of great grief to the poor bond slaves, who 
were forced to do the will of the great king. 

One day the prin-cess went down to bathe in the 
stream that ran near her house. And her maids 
went with her. And as she stood on the shore of the 
Nile, she caught sight of a small boat built like an 
ark, that was hid in the reeds, and sent her maids to 
fetch it out. 

When the prin-cess looked in the ark she saw the 
child. And the babe wept. And the prin-cess 
tried to soothe it, but the child cried the more, for her 
voice was a strange one. And she said, This is a 
He-brew child. 

And one of her maids spoke up, and said, Shall I 
get thee a He-brew nurse, that she may nurse the 
child for thee? 

And the prin-cess said, Yes; go. 

And the maid brought her own and the babe's 
moth-er, to whom the prin-cess said, Take this child 
and nurse it for me, and I will pay thee for it. 

And the wo-man took the child and took care 
of it. 




Y. F. B.— 7 



THE FIND-ING OF MO-SES. 



History of the Old Testament, 

And the child grew, and was brought down to 
Pha-ra-oh's house, and the prin-cess made him her 
son, and gave him the name of Mo-ses; which 
means " Drawn out." 

One day, when Mo-ses had grown to be a man, 
he went out to look at those of his own race, and to 
watch them at their tasks. And while he stood 
there a man from E-gypt struck one of the Jews; 
and when Mo-ses looked to the right and to the left 
and saw that no one was near, he slew the one from 
E-gypt and hid him in the sand. 

And the next day, when he went out, he saw 
there was a fight be-tween two He-brews. And he 
said to the one who was in the wrong, Why did you 
strike that man ? 

And he said, Who made thee our judge? Dost 
thou want to kill me, as thou didst the one from 
E-gypt? 

And Mo-ses was scared, for he thought no one 
knew of this deed. 

As soon as it came to the ears of the king, he 
sought to slay Mo-ses. But Mo-ses fled from him, 
and dwelt in the land of Mid-i-an, and found a wife 
there, and took care of the flocks of Jeth-ro, his 
wife's fath-er. 

One day as he led his flock out in search of food 
he came to Mount Ho-reb, and there he saw a flame 



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of fire stream out of a bush, and the bush was not 
burnt in the least. 

As he drew near the bush the Lord spoke to him 
out of the flame, and Mo- 
ses hid his face, for he 
dared not look on God. 

The Lord said, The 
cry of the chil-dren of Is- 
ra-el has come up to me, 
and I have seen how ill 
they have been used. 
And I will send thee to 
Pha-ra-oh that thou mayst 
bring them forth out of 
the land of E-gypt. 

But Mo-ses was loth 
to go. 

And the Lord said, 
What is that in thine 
hand? And Moses said, 
A rod, And the Lord 
said, Cast it on the 
ground. And he cast it 
on the ground, and it was changed to a snake, and 
Mo-ses fled from it. Then the Lord said to Mo-ses, 
Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And 
Mo-ses did so, and it was a rod in his hand. And 




MO-SES BROUGHT BE-FORE PHA-RA-OH'S DAUGH-TER. 



History of the Old Testament. 

the Lord said, Put now thy hand in on thy breast. 
And he put it in, and when he drew it out it was 
white, and like a dead hand. And he put his hand 
in once more, and drew it out, and it was like the 
rest of his flesh. 

Then Mo-ses said, O, my Lord, I am not fit to do 
this work, for I am slow of speech, and a man of few 
words. 

And the Lord said to him, I will be with thee, 
and teach thee what thou wilt say. 

Still Mo-ses was loth to go, and the Lord was 
wroth with him, and said, Take Aa-ron with thee. 
He can speak well. And thou shalt tell him what 
to say and do, and I will teach you, and with this 
rod in thy hand thou shalt do great things, as if thou 
wert God. 

So Mo-ses took his wife and his sons and put 
them on an ass, and went back to E-gypt with the rod 
of God in his hand. 

And Mo-ses and Aa-ron went in to the king and 
begged him to let the He-brews go out of the land. 
And he would not, but laid more work on the men, 
and bade them make bricks with-out straw, and do 
all sorts of hard tasks. 

And the Lord sent plagues on the land, and the 
ponds dried up, and all the large streams were turned 
to blood, and the fish died, and the stench of them 



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made the air scarce fit to breathe. And there was 
no wa-ter they could drink. Then there came a 
plague of frogs, 
and they were 
so thick in the 
land that Pha- 
ra-oh said he 
would let the 
chil-dren of Is- 
ra-el go if Mo- 
ses would rid 
him of the frogs 
at the same 
time. 

But the 
king did not 
keep his word, 
forassoonashe 
found the frogs 
grew less, he 
said the He- 
brews should 
not go. 

Then the 

Lord smote the land with lice ; but still Pha-ra-oh's 
heart was hard. 

Then the Lord sent flies in such swarms that 




MOS-ES AT THE BURNING BUSH. 



History of the Old Testament, 

there was no place that was free from them, and they 
made the food not fit to eat. 

And the king told Mo-ses he would let the bond- 
slaves go to serve their God, but they were not to go 
far till the land was rid of flies. Then Mo-ses went 
forth and prayed to God, and the flies left the land. 
But still the king's heart was hard, and he would 
not let them go. 

Then the Lord sent worse plagues: the flocks 
and herds died ; there were boils on man and beast ; 
the crops did not come up, and rain, hail, and balls 
of fire came down from the sky. And still the heart 
of the king was as hard as stone. Then the Lord 
sent lo-custs, that ate up all the hail had left, and 
there was not a green leaf on the trees nor a blade of 
grass to be seen in the whole land. 

And the king bade Mo-ses to set him free from 
this plague. And the Lord sent a strong west wind, 
that blew the flies in-to the Red Sea. Yet Pha-ra-oh 
would not let the He-brews go. 

Then the Lord told Mo-ses to stretch out his 
hand, and there came up a thick cloud that made the 
land so dark that the folks staid in bed for three 
days. And Pha-ra-oh said to Mo-ses, Get thee out 
of my sight. For if I see thy face thou shalt die. 

And Mo-ses said, Thou hast well said: I will see 
thy face no more. 



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And the Lord sent one more plague on E-gypt: 
he smote the first-born of men and of beasts, and a 
great cry was heard through the land. And then 
Pha-ra-oh had to let 
the chil-dren of Is-ra-el 
go, for he could not 
keep up this strife with 
God. And Mo-ses led 
the He-brew chil-dren 
out of E-gypt, and the 
Lord sent a cloud by 
day and a fire by night 
to show them the 
way. 

And when they 
were in camp by the 
Red Sea, they looked 
up and saw Pha-ra-oh 
and his hosts, and were 
in great fear lest he 
should kill them. And 
they cried out to the 
Lord, and blamed 
Mo-ses that he had 
brought them in-to such straits. 

As they came to the Red Sea, Mo-ses raised his 
rod and the sea rose like a wall on each side, and 




MIR-IAM, THE SIS-TER OF MO-SES, AND THE WO-MEN 
OF IS-RABL SING-ING PRAISES. 



History of the Old Testament. 

the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went on dry land through the 
midst of the sea. 

Then Pha-ra-oh and his hosts came close in the 
rear, and passed down be-tween the great sea-wall 
that rose at the right hand and at the left. And the 
waves that had stood still at a sign from God were 
let loose, and the king and his horse-men were swept 
out of sight. 

When the chil-dren of Is-ra-el came out of the 
Red Sea they were three days with naught to drink. 
And when they came to a stream, called Ma-rah, 
they found it bitter. And they said to Mo-ses, 
What shall we drink? 

And Mo-ses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord 
showed him a tree, and when he had cast a branch 
of it in the stream it was made sweet at once. And 
they came to E-lim, where were ten wells and three- 
score palm-trees, and there they made their camp. 

It was not long ere there was a great cry for 
bread. 

And Mo-ses plead with God, and when the sun 
went down that day quails flew in-to the camp, and 
they had all the meat they cared to eat. At dawn 
of the next day, as soon as the dew was off the ground, 
there came a rain of what was at first thought to be 
hail-stones. 

But Mo-ses said it was food that God had sent 



History of the Old Testament. 

them to eat, and they were to take all and no more 
than they would need for one day. For they were 
to trust in God that he would feed them each day. 
On the sixth day they were to take what would last 
them for two days, for no food fell on the day of rest. 

This new food was called man-na. 

As they went on they came to Reph-i-dim, but 
found no wa-ter to drink. And they found fault 
with Mo-ses. And Mo-ses cried out, Lord, what 
shall I do to these, who have a mind to stone me? 

At this time they were near Mount Ho-reb, where 
God spoke to Mo-ses out of a bush that was on fire, 
yet not burnt. 

And God told Mo-ses to take his rod in his hand 
and go on till he came to a rock. And this rock he 
was to strike with his rod, and wa-ter would flow out 
of it. And Mo-ses did as the Lord told him, and 
when he struck the rock the wa-ter ran out. 

In the third month from the time they left E-gypt, 
the chil-dren of Is-ra-el came near Mount Si-na-i, and 
went in-to camp. And Mo-ses went up to the top 
of the Mount, and the Lord spoke to him there. 

On the third day a thick cloud of smoke rose 
from Mount Si-na-i, and a loud noise that made 
those that heard it quake with fear. And Mo-ses 
led his flock out of the camp, and they came and 
stood at the foot of the mount. And they said to 



Through the Red Sea and the Wilderness, 

Mo-ses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but 
let not God speak with us lest we die. But Mo-ses 
told them that God had not come to make them die, 
but to make them fear to do aught that did not please 
him. 

And God gave to Mo-ses two blocks of stone on 
which were the Ten Laws that the chil-dren of Is-ra-el 
were to keep. 

Now while Mo-ses was in the mount, face to face 
with God, those whom he had brought out of E-gypt 
were in camp at the foot. And Mo-ses staid so 
long that they made up their minds he would not 
come back. So they said to Aa-ron, Make us a God 
that we can bow down to. And Aa-ron bade them 
throw all the gold they had into the fire. And they 
did so, and it took the form of a calf. And when 
God saw this he was not pleased, but bade Mo-ses 
make haste down the mount. 

When Mo-ses came down from the mount with 
the two flat stones in his hands, and drew near the 
camp, and saw what had been done, he was in a 
great rage. He cast the blocks of stone out of his 
hands and broke them at the foot of the mount, 

Then he took the calf which they had made, and 
burnt it in the fire till there was nought left of it but 
a fine dust. And Mo-ses begged God to blot out 
the sins of those whom he had led out of E-gypt. 



History of the Old Testament. 

And the Lord told Mo-ses to hew out two blocks of 
stone like to the first, and bring them up with him 
to the top of Mount Si-na-i. 

This Mo-ses did, and the Lord wrote on them 
the Ten Laws that all were to keep if they would 
reach the land they sought. 

They were more than two-score years on the road, 
and in that time they met with plagues, and there 
was strife in their midst, yet as they went there was 
the fire by night and the cloud by day to show that 
the Lord was with them. 

When they came to Mount Hor and were yet 
a long way from Ca-naan, Aa-ron died, and there 
was great grief at his loss. They were sick at heart 
and foot-sore, and spoke hard words of God and 
Mo-ses. There is no bread here for us, they said, 
and no wa-ter, and we loathe this man-na. And for 
this sin God sent snakes in-to their camp, and they 
bit the chil-dren of Is-ra-el so that a few of them died. 
Then they plead with Mo-ses to rid them of the 
snakes, and make their peace with God. 

And Mo-ses prayed for them. And God told 
him to make a snake like to those which bit 
his flock, and set it up on a pole. And all those 
who would look at this brass snake should be made 
well. 

And Mo-ses did so. And this sign was meant 



Through the Red Sea and the Wilderness. 



to show forth Christ, who was to heal men of their 
sins, and to be raised up on a cross. 

And Mo-ses 
led his flock till 
they came to 
the plains of 
Mo-ab. And 
Ba-lak, the king 
of that land, 
thought they 
had come to 
fight with him, 
and he sent a 
man named Ba- 
laam out to 
curse them and 
drive them back. 
HetoldBa-laam 
he would make 
him a rich man 
if he would do 
this thing, and 
as Ba-laam was 
fond of wealth 
he said he would do the the kings will. So he set 
forth on his ass, and had not gone far when he met 
an an-gel with a drawn sword in his hand. Ba-laam 

V. F. B.— 8 




BA-LAAM AND THE ASS. 



History of the Old Testament, 

did not see him, but the ass did and turned out 
of the road. But the an-gel went on and stood in 
a place where there was a wall on each side. 

When the ass came to the place she went close 
to the wall and tried to get by. But she hurt Ba- 
laam's foot and he struck her and made her go on. 
And the an-gel went on and stood in a place where 
there was no room to turn to the right hand or the 
left. 

Then the ass shook with fright and fell down on 
the ground. And Ba-laam struck her with the staff 
that he had in his hand. 

And the Lord made the ass speak like a man, 
and say, What have I done to thee that thou hast 
struck me these three times? 

Ba-laam said, To make thee move on: I would 
there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill thee. 

Then the ass said, Am I not thine ? and have 
I been wont to do so to thee? And Ba-laam said, 
No. Then the Lord made Ba-laam see the an-gel 
that stood in the way with a drawn sword in his hand, 
and Ba-laam bowed his face to the ground. 

Then the an-gel said, Why hast thou struck thine 
ass these three times? Lo, I came out to stop thee, 
and to turn thee from the way of sin. And the ass 
saw me, and turned from the path, and if she had 
not done so I would have slain thee. 



Through the Red Sea and the Wilderness. 



Then he said to Ba-laam, Go with the men the 
king has sent, but say on-ly what I shall tell thee. 

So Ba-laam went with the men, and when Ba-lak 
heard that he 
was come he 
went out to meet 
him. The next 
day Ba-lak took 
Ba-laam to a 
high place, from 
whence he could 
look down on the 
camp of Is-ra-el, 
and curse them. 

But the Lord 
would not let 
him curse them, 
but made him 
speak good 
things of them. 
This was done 
on three high 
mounts, and at 
last the king was 
wroth, and said to Ba-laam, I sent for thee to curse my 
foes, and lo, these three times hast thou blest them. 

And Ba-lak bade him make haste and go back 




MO-SES ON MOUNT NE-BO. 



History of the Old Testament. 

to his own home. And Ba-laam went off as poor as 
he came, for Ba-lak gave him none of his gold. 

The Lord brought Mo-ses and his flock to the 
banks of the Jor-dan, which they would have to cross 
to reach the land of Ca-naan. And while they were 
there, Mo-ses went up to the top of Mount Ne-bo to 
talk with God. And God told him how large the 
land was that he would give to the chil-dren of Is- 
ra-el. And he said that Mo-ses should look on it, 
but should not step foot in the land. And Mo-ses 
died on Mount Ne-bo, and though an old man, was 
well and strong till the Lord took him. And no 
one knows in what part of the earth his grave was 
made. 



HOW JOSHUA AND JEPHTHAH FOUGHT 

FOR THE LORD 



When Mo-ses died, Josh-u-a took charge of the 
chil-dren of Is-ra-el, and sought to do God's will, as 
Mo-ses had done. And Josh-u-a sent word through 
the camp that in three days they would cross the 
Jor-dan. And when they set foot in the stream the 
waves stood back as they did in the Red Sea, and 
they went through Jor-dan on dry ground. And as 



How Joshua and Jephthah Fought for the Lord. 



they came up out of the stream the waves closed up 
and there was no path-way through them. 

The chil-dren of Is-ra-el made their camp at a 
place called Gil-gal ; 
and as there was no 
lack of food in this 
good land, the Lord 
ceased to rain down 
man-na for them to 
eat. 

The next day 
Josh-u-a left the 
camp and came near 
to the walls of Jer-i- 
cho. There he met 
a man with a drawn 
sword in his hand. 
And Josh-u-a said, 
Art thou^ for us or- 
for our foes ? 

And the man 
said, As prince of 
the Lord's host am 
I now come. And at these words Josh-u-a fell on 
his face to the earth ; for he knew it was the Lord 
that spoke to him. 

The Lord told Josh-u-a to have no fear of the 




PASS-ING THROUGH THE JOR-DAN. 



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king of Jer-i-cho, for the chil-dren of Is-ra-el should 
take the town. All their men of war were to march 
round the town once each day for six days. Some 
of the priests were to bear the ark, which held the 
things they made use of when they went in to talk 
with God, and some were to blow on rams' horns. 

And the next day — when the six days were at an 
end — they were to march round the town sev-en 
times, and the priests were to blow their horns. And 
when the men of Is-ra-el heard a long loud blast they 
were all to give a great shout and the wall would fall 
flat to the ground, and they could march in and take 
the town. 

Josh-u-a bade his men do all the Lord had said; 
and told them to make no noise with their voice as 
they went their rounds till he bade them shout. 
And when the priests blew their horns for the last 
time, Josh-u-a cried, Shout! for the Lord is with us! 
and there was a great shout and the wall fell, and 
they took the town ; and the fame of Josh-u-a spread 
through all the lands. 

Josh-u-a fought with more than a score of kings 
and won their lands from them ; but yet there was 
much land in Ca-naan for which the chil-dren of Is- 
ra-el would have to fight. 

But as the years went on, Josh-u-a grew so old 
that he could not lead his men to war as he used to 



How Joshua and Jephthah Fought for the Lord, 

do. And he called his flock to him and told them 
how good the Lord had been to them. And he bade 
them love the Lord and serve him, and put from 




JER-I-CHO CON-qjJERED AND DE-STROYED. 



them all strange gods. He said, Choose ye this day 
whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house we 
will serve the Lord. 

And the men said, The Lord hath done great 



History of the Old Testament. 

things for us, and him will we serve, for he Is 
our God. 

And Josh-u-a took a great stone and set it up 
neath an oak tree that stood near where the ark was 
kept at Shi-loh. And this stone, he said, was to be 
a sign of the vow they had made there to serve the 
Lord. And when the talk was at an end, the men 
went to their own homes. 

And ere long Josh-u-a died. And they laid him 
in the part of the land that God gave him as his own, 
on the north side of the hill of Ga-ash. 

Then the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went to war with 
the tribes that were in the land of Ca-naan, as Josh- 
u-a had told them to do. But they did not drive 
them all out, as they should have done, but made 
friends with those that were left, and were led in-to 
sin, and were made to serve as bond-slaves. And 
when they were sick of their sins, and sought the 
help of the Lord, he sent men to rule them, and to 
lead them out to war and set them free from these 
friends who proved to be the worst kind of foes. 

Now there was a man in Is-ra-el whose name was 
Jeph-thah. He was a brave man, and had done 
great deeds, but the chil-dren of Is-ra-el were not 
kind to him, so he fled from their land, and went to 
live in the land of Tob. But when the Jews had 
need of a man to lead them out to war, they thought 



How Joshua and Jephthah Fought for the Lord. 



of Jeph-thah. And they said, Come, and be at the 
head of us when we go out to fight the Am-mon-ites. 

And Jeph-thah said, If I go with you, and win 
the fight, will you make 
me judge in Is-ra-el? 

And they said they 
would. 

Now ere the fight 
took place, Jeph-thah 
made a vow that if the 
Lord would let him 
win he would give to 
God — that is, would 
slay and burn as if it 
were a lamb — the first 
who came out of his 
doors to meet him 
when he went back to 
his home. 

Jeph-thah should 
not have made this rash 
vow, and need not have 

Kept It II lie naQ aSKeQ jeph-thah and his daugh-ter 

God to for-give the sin. 

He went out to fight the Am-mon-ites, and by 
the help of the Lord the chil-dren of Is-ra-el were 
set free from them. 




History of the Old Testament. 

When the fight was at an end Jeph thah went 
back to his home, and the first to come out to meet 
him was his own child, a fair young maid, whose 
face was bright with joy. She was all the child that 
Jeph-thah had, and when he saw her he rent his 
clothes and told her of the vow he had made. 

And she said, My fath-er, if thou hast made a 
vow to the Lord, do with me as thou hast said. 
And he took his child and did to her as he had said 
he would, and all the young girls in Is-ra-el wept 
for her. 

Jeph-thah was a judge for six years, and then 
he died. 



SAMSON: THE STRONG MAN 



The Jews kept on in their sins, and took no 
pains to please the Lord, and so fell in-to the hands 
of the Phil-is-tines. 

And there was at that time a man in Is-ra-el 
whose name was Ma-no-ah. Both he and his wife 
served the Lord ; and they had no child. And God 
sent one of his an-gels to the wife of Ma-no-ah to tell 



Samson: the Strong Man, 

her that she should have a son who was to be brought 
up to serve the Lord, and to do his work. 

Ere long Ma-no-ah and his wife had a son, to 
whom they gave the name of Sam-son. 

And the child grew, and the Lord blest him. 
And when he was grown up he went to Tin-muth, 
where he met a Phil-is-tine wo-man and fell in love 
with her. 

Then his pa-rents plead with him to find a wife 
in Is-ra-el, and not to take this one who was no friend 
to his race. But Sam-son would not give her up. 

So they went with him to Tin-muth. And on 
the way a li-on ran out and roared at him. And 
Sam-son put his arms round the beast and tore him 
with his hands as if he had been a young kid. But 
he did not tell his fath-er and moth-er what he had 
done. 

The time soon came when Sam-son was to set 
the Jews free from the Phil-is-tines. And he went 
down to one of their towns and slew a few of their 
men, and then went back to his own home, while his 
wife stayed in Tin-muth. 

When it was time to bring the wheat in from the 
field, Sam-son went down to see his wife, and took 
with him a young kid. But when he came to the 
house her fath-er would not let him go in, and told 
him that she was his wife no more, but had gone to 



History of the Old Testament. 

live with some one else. Then Sam-son was in a 
great rage, and he went and caught more than ten 
score fox-es, and set bits of wood on fire, and tied 
these fire-brands to their tails, and let them loose in 
the fields and vine-yards of the Phil-is-tines. 

And they set fire to the grain, and burnt it all up. 

And the grape-vines and fruit trees were burnt, 
and much harm was done. 

When the Phil-is-tines found out that it was 
Sam-son who had done this they took his wife and 
her fath-er and burnt them to death. And Sam-son 
fought and slew a host of the Phil-is-tines, and then 
went on the top of a high rock called E-tam to stay 
there. 

Then a crowd of men went up with a rush to the 
top of the rock, and they said to Sam-son, We have 
come to bind thee, that we may give thee into the 
hands of the Phil-is-tines. 

Sam-son made them swear that they would not 
put him to death, and they bound him with strong 
cords and brought him down from the rock. 

As they drew near the camp of the Phil-is-tines 
a great shout went up from the men there. And 
the Lord gave Sam-son such strength that he broke 
the cords from his arms as if they had been burnt 
threads. 

And Sam-son took up the jaw-bone of an ass, 



Samson : the Strong Man, 



and with it he fought the Phil-is-tines and slew a host 
of them. 

Then a great thirst came on him, and there was 
no well near from which he could drink. And he 
grew so weak that 
he cried out to the 
Lord not to let him 
die of thirst or fall 
into the hands of 
his foes. 

And the Lord 
made a spring at 
that place and wa- 
ter ran out, and 
when Sam-son had 
drunk, his strength 
came back to him. 

Sam-son came 
to the town of Ga- 
za, and went in a 
house there. Now 
the Phil-is-tines 
dwelt in Ga-za, 
and when they heard that Sam-son was there they 
shut the gates of the town, and kept watch near them 
all night. They said when the day dawns we will 
kill him. 




SAM-SON SLAY-ING THE PH1L-1S-T1ISES. 



History of the Old Testament, 

But in the dead of the night Sam-son rose up 
and came to the gates of the town, and when he found 
them shut he took them up — posts, bar and all — and 
bore them a long way off to the top of a hill. 

Sam-son's hair had not been cut, and it had grown 
thick and long. And there was a wo-man named 
De-li-lah whom Sam-son used to go and see. And 
when the Phil-is-tines heard of it they came to her 
and told her if she would find out how they might 
bind Sam-son and bear him off, they would give her 
a large sum of gold. 

So when Sam-son came to De-li-lah's house she 
said to him, Tell me, I pray thee what makes thee 
so strong, and with what thou couldst be bound and 
not break loose? 

Sam-son said if they bound him with seven green 
withes — that is, cords made out of soft twigs — he 
would be so weak that he could not break them. 

When De-li-lah told this to the Phil-is-tines they 
brought her seven green withes, and Sam-son let her 
bind him with them. Now she had men hid in her 
house who were to take Sam-son if he could not 
break the twigs. And when she had bound him 
she cried out, The Phil-is-tines seize thee, Sam-son ! 
And as soon as she had said these words he broke 
the green withes as if they were burnt threads. 

Then De-li-lah knew that Sam-son made fun of 



Samson: the Strong Man. 

her and told her lies, and she said once more, Tell 
me, I pray thee, with what thou canst be bound and 
not break loose. 

Sam-son told her if he were bound with new 




sam-son's down-fall. 



ropes, which had not been used, that his strength 
would leave him, and he would be too weak to break 
them. 

So she took new ropes and bound him. But ere 
the men who were hid in the room could spring out 



Y. F. B.— 9 



History of the Old Testament 

and take him, Sam-son broke the ropes from his 
arms as if they had been threads. 

Then De-li-lah told Sam-son that he did but 
mock her and tell her lies, and she begged him to let 
her know how he might be bound. 

And he said if she would weave his hair with the 
web in the loom his strength would go from him. 
And she wove his long hair in with the web, and 
made it fast with a large peg that was part of 
the loom. 

Then she cried out, and Sam-son rose up and 
went off with the great peg, and the whole of the 
web that was in the loom. 

Then she said he did not love her or he would 
not make sport of her in this way. And she teased 
him each day, and gave him no peace, so that at last 
he had to tell her the truth. 

He said his hair had not been cut since he was 
born, and if it were shaved off he would lose all his 
strength. 

It was wrong for Sam-son to tell her this, for she 
was bad at heart and not a true friend. But he did 
not know then how great was his sin. 

De-li-lah knew that this time Sam-son had told 
her the truth ; so she sent for the Phil-is-tines to come 
up to her house. 

Then while Sam-son slept, she had a man come 



Samson ; the Strong Man, 



in and shave all the hair from his head. And when 
this was done she cried out, The Phil-is-tines seize 
thee, Sam-son. 



And he 
woke from his 
sleep, and 
knew not his 
strength had 
gone from him. 

Then the 
Phil-is-tines 
took him and 
put out his 
eyes, brought 
him down to 
Ga-za, and 
bound him 
with chains of 
brass. And 
they made him 
fast to a mill- 
stone, and he 
had to work 
hard to grind 

| • ° SAM -SON AND DE-Ll-LAH. 

their corn. 

While he was shut up in jail Sam-son had time 
to think of his sins, and he no doubt cried out to the 




History of the Old Testament. 

Lord to keep him. For his hair grew out and his 
strength came back. But the Phil-is-tines did not 
know this. 

They had made their own god, and its name was 
Da-gon. And they thought that Da-gon gave Sam- 
son in-to their hands, and loud was their praise of 
him. And all the Phil-is-tines met in the large house 
that had been built for Da-gon that they might bow 
down to their god and give him thanks. 

The crowd was great, and their hearts were full 
of joy. And they said, Send for Sam-son that he 
may make sport for us. And poor blind Sam-son 
was brought in, and sat down in their midst. And 
those in the house and those on the roof made sport 
of him in all sorts of ways. 

And Sam-son put his arms round two of the 
great posts that held up the house. And he bent 
down, and the house fell, and most of the Phil-is- 
tines were killed. Sam-son died with them, and by 
his death slew more of the foes of Is-ra-el than he had 
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A VOYAGE IN THE YACHT SUNBEAM. 

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